millennium
/mɪˈlenɪəm/noun
(pl. millennia /-nɪə/或millenniums)
1- a period of a thousand years, especially when calculated from the traditional date of the birth of Christ一千年, 千年期（尤指从基督传统出生日算起）。
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- an anniversary of a thousand years千周年纪念日：
the millennium of the Russian Orthodox Church.
俄国东正教千周年纪念日。
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the millennium
the point at which one period of a thousand years ends and another begins千禧年。
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the millennium
Christian Theology the prophesied thousand-year reign of Christ at the end of the age (Rev. 20:1-5)【基督教神学】世界末日前基督治理世界的一千年（《启示录》 20:1-5）。
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the millennium
figurative a utopian period of good government, great happiness, and prosperity〈喻〉（作为乌托邦的）美满时期; 太平盛世; 黄金时代。
USAGE
The correct spelling is millennium not millenium. The latter is a common error (found in just over 10 per cent of citations in the British National Corpus), formed by analogy with other similar words correctly spelled with only one n, such as millenarian and millenary. The differences in spelling are explained by different origins. Millennium was formed by analogy with words like biennium, while millenary and millenarian were formed on the Latin milleni.
派生词
millennial
adjective词源
mid 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Latin mille 'thousand'， on the pattern of biennium.